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  1. Thread: gnotime help

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    [ubuntu] gnotime help

    I recently installed gnotime and began using it to track my time for work. After a couple of weeks or so of use I tried to start it up and it said it could not access its directory...
  2. Re: Now that the Unity hate has cooled down, how do you feel about the WM?

    I had heard bad things about it from others, so was a little dubious. I installed 12.04 on a secondary partition just to try it, thinking that I would make Cinnamon Mint my main OS. But when I used...
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    [ubuntu] answering machine with comcast telephony?

    I recently added Comcast phone service. They installed a new box. It is a Touchstone Telephony Modem (TM402P). This modem is providing both phone and internet. It connects to my USR5461 wireless...
  4. [ubuntu] Re: Deleted Ubuntu partition and sent to grub rescue prompt PLEASE HELP

    To explain what happened. Grub in the MBR points to /boot/grub for the files needed to complete booting. The mbr is too small to hold all the needed stuff. When you deleted your partition, grub no...
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    [all variants] Hamachi broken?

    Just average joe user here running Ubuntu 9.10. I am trying to install Hamachi, but it doesn't seem to want to work anymore. Used to use it a lot to access computers on different construction sites,...
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    [all variants] Re: HPf4280 printer not printing

    On my machine there seems to be a problem currently with hplip recognising my printer (HP C6180), but I can still print from it. Use the Cups set-up admin stuff by opening a browser (firefox?) and...
  7. Poll: Re: Pulse Audio: Is it really successful or a disaster?

    For me, pulseaudio has been a pain that just keeps going and going and go....

    I have an audigy2 platinum, and after all the wonderful 'how to's' in the forum, and pulseaudio's own perfect set up...
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    [ubuntu] evolution migration failure

    I am trying to change machines and move all my old stuff over.

    My starting point is 8.04 ubuntu, but I added the ubuntustudio stuff to it. I have been using Evolution for a little over a year on...
  9. Re: How to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP without changing the Windows MBR

    Zebzeb - your plan is good. NTFS is a very good file system, but for smaller partitions on single user machines, FAT32 is good enough, and sometimes even outperforms it for speed. FAT32 gets bogged...
  10. Re: How to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows XP without changing the Windows MBR

    Once you start horsing around with the MBR, you should be prepared to do all of the tasks needed for maintaining it. You should be able to save a copy as a back-up, and then be able to restore it...
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    Re: Ubuntu Blowed Up My Computer Real Good!

    I am not sure from Babak's post, but I think his grub install failed and he didn't get a menu, just a grub prompt. And, of course, even with just that, he could find instructions online on how to...
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    Re: Ubuntu Blowed Up My Computer Real Good!

    I think Babak has an excellent point. By making the live cd so hugely easy to use, it establishes a context of ease of use in the mind of the user. Which, I think, is what we want, right? Those of us...
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